Women's History for Adults

Updated March 4, 2025
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Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation
Miles, Tiya
Paper Book
Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess...
Quartet : how four women changed the musical world
Broad, Leah
Paper Book
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing careers offour extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
Miles, Tiya
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out...
All we were promised : a novel
Lattimore, Ashton
Paper Book
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia--"a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds" (People, Best New Books) The rebel . . . the...
Becoming Madam Secretary
Dray, Stephanie
Paper Book
She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it... New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised on tales of her...
How women made music : a revolutionary history from NPR Music
Fensterstock, Alison
Paper Book
Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music--from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton--featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.<...
The midnight news /
Baker, Jo.
Paper Book
From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz--a story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger *  "[A] thrilling novel...atmospheric and memorable." --Emma Donoghue, best-selling author of Haven
No stopping us now : the adventures of older women in American history
Collins, Gail
Paper Book
The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting...
When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women from 1960 to the present
Collins, Gail.
Paper Book
Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women...

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